And is there an option to turn it off?

What do you mean? In avatars?

Xch3l said:
What do you mean? In avatars?

You know, animated posts? Just search animated and you'll see what I mean; some have their own thumbnail, others just have the generic white background with "Download" in black across it. I wanted to know if there's an option to show all animated post thumbnails with the "download" type thumbnail, as I sometimes skip posts with their own custom thumbnail even though they are animated.

DudeManGuy said:
You know, animated posts? Just search animated and you'll see what I mean; some have their own thumbnail, others just have the generic white background with "Download" in black across it. I wanted to know if there's an option to show all animated post thumbnails with the "download" type thumbnail, as I sometimes skip posts with their own custom thumbnail even though they are animated.

The ones you see with the "download" labeled thumbnail are flash animations, the ones that do show the actual thumbnail are gif animations.

There should be a way to manually upload thumbnails for flashes. That blank white square is so ugly.

As a suggestion, do you think there could be some sort of overlay image or symbol in the corner or posts with the animated tag? They're worlds different from plain picture posts.

DudeManGuy said:
As a suggestion, do you think there could be some sort of overlay image or symbol in the corner or posts with the animated tag? They're worlds different from plain picture posts.

Actually, I've been thinking of a way to do that (note that I'm not a developer in the side of e6) on my script

gifs will show a thumbnail, flashes will show the download icon

And for the record, the idea of uploading an image for a thumbnail has been scrapped several times

Why doesn't it just take the first frame? (Note I have no idea how Flash animations actually work, just assuming they are something like traditional animation with individual frames)

123easy said:
Why doesn't it just take the first frame? (Note I have no idea how Flash animations actually work, just assuming they are something like traditional animation with individual frames)

Flash files contain several objects, not always all on one.

Xch3l said:
And for the record, the idea of uploading an image for a thumbnail has been scrapped several times

We have plans for the future.

furballs_dc said:
Flash files contain several objects, not always all on one.

They're pretty much like SVG but more advanced.

Also, to make a thumbnail of it, you would need to render the first frame server-side. The downside of that is that most flashes uset a blank first frame that acts as a loading screen.

tony311 said:
We have plans for the future.

Really?

tony311 said:
We have plans for the future.

Kinda against it since people might put misleading thumbnails in their uploads...

TheHuskyK9 said:
Kinda against it since people might put misleading thumbnails in their uploads...

That depends on it being something the person has to selectively upload for the flash separately, now doesn't it?

I think that no mater what we do, I want the old flash icon back from years ago if we don't use thumbnails. It looked much better than the crappy black on white "download" tile

TheHuskyK9 said:
Kinda against it since people might put misleading thumbnails in their uploads...

We almost certainly wouldn't make it as simple as "anyone can change the thumbnail to whatever they want at any time". I'd think we'd likely want to have an uploaded thumbnail not display unless it was approved by an admin. We also could enforce rules such as "you must use the same thumbnail the artist used at the source, unless there wasn't one" (obviously this could lead to an occasional problem).

Point is, we'd make sure that being able to upload thumbnails is something that actually works and isn't wide-open to abuse.

Rainbow_Dash said:
I think that no mater what we do, I want the old flash icon back from years ago if we don't use thumbnails. It looked much better than the crappy black on white "download" tile

TBH, have to agree on that. For images that don't get thumbnails if we do impliment them, too.